Al Gore’s Current TV Partners with Yahoo
09.20.2006
Xeni at Boing Boing broke the story in an exclusive interview with Al Gore yesterday. Current TV has partnered with Yahoo around four broadband video channels covering sports, pop culture, automotive and travel. A nice coup for Yahoo, especially given Current’s former relationship with Google:
“The new partnership between Current and Yahoo is particularly interesting because until now, the television network had close ties with another search and online video titan: Google. Brief Google zeitgeist segments about top search topics aired twice hourly on Current TV. Additionally, Mr. Gore served as Senior Advisor to Google.”
Related: Weak auto advertising contributed to worse-than-expected earnings news from Yahoo, Mediapost.
Looks like Yahoo! is moving more toward crowdsourcing. Perhaps this is one reason Yahoo! did not renew its agreement with Richard Bangs’ Adventures?